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• 1. Introduction
• 2. It's Greek to them: gay and lesbian receptions of the ancient world
• 3. Classics and ideology
• 4. September 11th on the Western stage
• 5. From the borders: contemporary identity, community, and the ancient world
• 6. Power, the canon, and the unexpected voice
• Conclusion: on fractures and fracturing.
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Written in a lively and accessible style, Antiquity Now opens our gaze to the myriad uses and abuses of classical antiquity in contemporary fiction, film, comics, drama, television - and even internet forums. With every chapter focusing on a different aspect of classical reception - including sexuality, politics, gender and ethnicity - this book explores the ideological motivations behind contemporary American allusions to the classical world. Ultimately, this kaleidoscope of receptions - from calls for marriage equality to examinations of gang violence to passionate pleas for peace (or war) - reveals a 'classical antiquity' that reconfigures itself daily, as modernity explains itself to itself through ever-expanding technologies and media. Antiquity Now thus examines the often-surprising redeployment of the art and literature of the ancient world, a geography charged with especial value in the contemporary imagination.
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• "To push back the shadow upon the dial of time" : the astonishing new facts of life and death
• The biological self
• Sex o'clock in America
• The neurophysiological mind; Or not
• The network of spatialized time
• The networked house and home
• The globalized consumer network : from pineapples to Turkey Red cigarettes to the bunny hug
• Race goes scientific, then transnational
• Religion goes worldly, ecumenical, and collective
• Citizen, community, state
• Conclusion : who you are.

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation in self-conception: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks, which arose out of scientific and technological innovations. There were transportation and communication networks. There was the network of the globalized marketplace, which brought into the American home exotic goods previously affordable to only a few. There was the network of standard time, which bound together all but the most rural Americans. There was the public health movement, which joined individuals to their fellow citizens by making everyone responsible for the health of everyone else. There were social networks that joined individuals to their fellows at the municipal, state, national, and global levels. Previous histories of this era focus on alienation and dislocation that new technologies caused. This book shows that American individuals in this era were more connected to their fellow citizens than ever-but by bonds that were distinctly modern.
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• Introduction / Jesús F. de la Teja
• Gray ghost : creating a collective memory of a Confederate Texas / Laura Lyons McLemore
• The problem of slave flight in Civil War Texas / Andrew J. Torget
• Involuntary removals : "refugeed slaves" in Confederate Texas / W. Caleb McDaniel
• East Texas unionism : Warren J. Collins, big thicket Jayhawker / Victoria E. Bynum
• New Americans or new southerners? Unionist German Texans / Walter D. Kamphoefner
• "Although we are the last soldiers" : citizenship, ideology, and Tejano unionism / Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez
• A Texas reign of terror : anti-unionist violence in north Texas / Richard B. McCaslin
• In defense of their families : African American women, the Freedmen's Bureau, and racial violence during Reconstruction in Texas / Rebecca A. Czuchry
• "Three cheers to freedom and equal rights to all" : Juneteenth and the meaning of citizenship / Elizabeth Hayes Turner
• Edmund J. Davis-unlikely radical / Carl H. Moneyhon.

• Background: Arkansas in 1860
• Fight for the union: Whigs and the northern- and foreign-born
• Mountain feds: origins of the Peace Society, May 6-November 17, 1861
• Discovery and arrest, November 17-December 31, 1861
• After the break-up: the captured, January 1862-January 1863
• Aftermath: January 1863 and on
• Other Arkansas mountain federals and secret unionists, 1862-1868
• Appendix I. 1861 State convention members
• Appendix II. Peace Society members
• Appendix III. True Democrat evaluation and rebuttal
• Appendix IV. Constitution of the Mill Creek Peace Organization Society
• Appendix V. Calf Creek resolutions
• Appendix VI. Camp Culloden prisoners
• Appendix VII. Captain John R.H. Scott to General Benjamin McCulloch
• Appendix VIII. Company I, 18th (Marmaduke's) Arkansas Infantry
• Appendix IX. Company K, 18th (Marmaduke's) Arkansas Infantry.

"This is the fascinating story of Civil War era farmers and hill people from northern Arkansas, where slavery was not a big part of the local economy, who opposed the state's secession from the Union"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Secession: 'it was perfect madness'
• 2. Confederate control: 'such a monarchical or tyrannical government'
• 3. Resistance: 'I never wanted any other flag to wave over my head'
• 4. Irregular wars: 'a state of insurrection against the laws'
• 5. Unionists under Reconstruction (and in repose): 'I don't feel safe'
• 6. Epilogue: 'all classes in the South united as by magic'.
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In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers.
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During the American Civil War, a small group of Unionists found themselves trapped in the largest Southern city between Richmond and New Orleans. Atlanta was a Confederate bastion. The military ruled, and it brooked little dissent. But, as this work demonstrates, the Confederate military hadn't reckoned on Cyrena Stone. A Vermont native, Cyrena moved to Atlanta with her husband, Amherst, in 1854. After war broke out Amherst escaped to the North, but Cyrena remained behind. Hiding her small Union flag in her sugar bowl, suppressing but not moderating her well-known pro-Northern views, she belonged to a secret circle of Unionists - white and black, male and female - who lived in fear of their lives but nevertheless managed to aid Union prisoners of war, protect the interests of the slaves and freedmen, and spirit military intelligence out of the city - eventually to the benefit of Sherman's advancing army. A story of loyalty and patriotism, this work draws on sources such as a long-lost diary and a work of purported fiction based closely on Stone's experience. It seeks to bring the adventures of the Atlanta Unionists to life, as deprivation and suspicion tightened like a noose around them in the closing, increasingly desperate years of the war. Arrested on suspicion of spying (the penalty was death) but released by the Southern authorities, her house destroyed by Union shelling during the fall of Atlanta, Cyrena Stone survived the war to see the triumph of the cause for which she had risked her life.
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During the American Civil War, Southern Unionist leaders used their written communication skills to proclaim their opposition to the Confederacy in pamphlets. This collection of their protests includes 18 pamphlets and a discussion of 22 others produced between 1861 and 1865.
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United States Supreme Court Justice James Moore Wayne is the most famous Georgian nobody knows. When his home state seceded from the Union in 1861, Wayne retained his seat on the US Supreme Court and remained loyal to the Union as the nation lunged headlong into war. He knew the insanity of secession, and warned of the folly of disunion, but his son, Col. Henry Wayne, resigned his commission in the US Army and cast his lot with the Confederacy. This book tells their story and examines the nature of Georgia's strong and largely overlooked unionist sentiment in the decades before the Civil War. Wayne's father was loyal to the British crown during the American Revolution, and was branded a traitor. His son remained loyal to the Confederacy during the Civil War, and was branded a rebel. Yet, Wayne stood foursquare for the Union and remained loyal to the nation he served, and in his mind, remained faithful to the state he loved. Wayne and his staunch stand for union before and during the Civil War mark him as an outlier in the story perpetuated by the Myth of the Lost Cause, but Wayne's story opens a long closed window into the economic, political, and social dimensions of unionism in the state of Georgia. Written with the precision of an engineer, analyzed with the acumen of a financier, and researched with the critical eye of the historian, Our Good and Faithful Servant adds to a growing number of works exploring the struggle between supporters of union and disunion during the Antebellum Era.
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• 1. Secession: 'it was perfect madness'
• 2. Confederate control: 'such a monarchical or tyrannical government'
• 3. Resistance: 'I never wanted any other flag to wave over my head'
• 4. Irregular wars: 'a state of insurrection against the laws'
• 5. Unionists under Reconstruction (and in repose): 'I don't feel safe'
• 6. Epilogue: 'all classes in the South united as by magic'.
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In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers.
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• An unlikely anti-slavery man
• Stepping to a different drummer
• For Douglas and the Union
• The "straight-out" union man
• Mr. Anderson goes to Washington
• "Sound on the goose"
• Denouncer of democrats
• Lush the Lincoln man
• Lush and "an epoch in the history of the country"
• Back home.

On January 31, 1865, Congressman Lucian Anderson from slave state Kentucky elevated principle above politics and voted for the 13th Amendment to the constitution, which abolished slavery. He gambled more than his political career; he put his life on the line. He was from Mayfield, one of the most rabidly Rebel towns in the Bluegrass State. In 1863 after Anderson was elected by Unionists - secessionists were disfranchised as traitors - Confederate raiders kidnapped him and held him for ransom. He already had received death threats and was probably the most hated citizen in Mayfield, though his father is credited with founding the western Kentucky town. During the Civil War, Anderson evolved from a conservative pro-slavery Union Democrat to an Unconditional Unionist and to a Republican. He was a Kentucky delegate to the 1864 national convention that re-nominated President Abraham Lincoln. Knowing he could not win another term, Anderson chose not to seek reelection in 1865. Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book is about eight senators who, according to the author, exemplified Ernest Hemingway's notion of "grace under pressure." They endured "the risks to their careers, the unpopularity of their courses, the defamation of their characters, and sometimes, sadly, but only sometimes, the vindication of their reputations and their principles." Anderson was such a lawmaker.
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• Young George (1816-1840)
• First duties (1840-1845)
• "Under fire" in Mexico and Virginia (1845-1848)
• New frontiers (1848-1854)
• The west beckons (1854-1860)
• Duty calls (1860-1861)
• Keeping the blue in the Bluegrass (August 1861-January 1862)
• A difficult interlude (February 1862-January 1863)
• "The Rock of Chickamauga" (February-October 1863)
• Redemption at Missionary Ridge (October 1863-January 1864)
• The "Wheel Horse" pulls for Atlanta (February-September 1864)
• Biding time in Tennessee (September-December 1864)
• The "Sledge" hammers Hood (December 15-31, 1864)
• A different kind of war (January-May 1865)
• An exasperating peace (May 1865-December 1866)
• Final stages (1867-1868)
• Thomas's last battles (1869-1870)
• Epilogue: what history has done.

Although often counted among the Union's top five generals, George Henry Thomas has still not received his due. A Virginian who sided with the North in the Civil War, he was a more complicated commander than traditional views have allowed. Brian Wills now provides a new and more complete look at the life of a man known to history as "The Rock of Chickamauga, " to his troops as "Old Pap, " and to General William T. Sherman as a soldier who was "as true as steel." While biographers have long been hampered by Thomas's lack of personal papers, Wills has drawn on previously untapped sources-notably the correspondence of Thomas's contemporaries-to offer new insights into what made him tick. Focusing on Thomas's personality and motivations, Wills contributes revealing discussions of his style and approach to command and successfully captures his troubled interactions with other Union commanders, providing a particularly more evenhanded evaluation of his relationship with Grant. He also gives a more substantial account of battlefield action than can be found in other biographies, capturing the ebb and flow of key encounters--Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga and Atlanta, Stones River and Mill Springs, Peachtree Creek and Nashville--to help readers better understand Thomas's contributions to their outcomes. Throughout Wills presents a well-rounded individual whose complex views embraced the worlds of professional military service and scientific inquisitiveness, a man known for attention to detail and compassion to subordinates. We also meet a sharp-tempered person whose disdain for politics hurt his prospects for advancement as much as it reflected positively on his character, and Wills offers new insight into why Thomas might not have progressed as quickly up the ladder of command as he might have liked. More deeply researched than other biographies, Wills's work situates Thomas squarely in his own time to provide readers with a more thorough and balanced life story of this enigmatic Union general. It is a definitive military history that gives us a new and needed picture of the Rock of Chickamauga--a man whose devotion to duty and ideals made him as true as steel.
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• Introduction: relationships, interests, and identities
• The world is a cruel and cold place
• Firstborn of the union
• Brave hearts and stout hands
• I feel impelled to pause
• Privileges and elections
• Democratic partisan militia
• Epilogue: Glen Avon.

Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836-1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for Southern independence. Defying the wishes of his Rebel fiancee and her powerful family - yet still hoping to impress them with his resolve, independence, and courage - Buckner joined the Twentieth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1861 as a Union soldier. President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 ultimately destroyed Buckner's faith in his cause, however, and he resigned his commission. In For Slavery and Union, Patrick A. Lewis uses Benjamin Buckner's story to illuminate the origins and perspectives of Kentucky's conservative proslavery Unionists, and explain why this group eventually became a key force in repressing social and political change during the Reconstruction era and beyond. Free from the constraints and restrictions imposed on the former Confederate states, men like Buckner joined with other proslavery forces to work in the interest of the New South's brand of economic growth and racial control. Other studies have explored how Kentucky cultivated a Confederate identity after the Civil War, but For Slavery and Union is the first major work to personify this transformation. Lewis's important book transcends biography to provide a deeply nuanced look at the history of the commonwealth in the nineteenth century and the development of the New South.
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